This cemetery record from Oxford, west of Burdick Street, lists hundreds of burials collected in September 2001 by Christopher Schnur. The transcription includes names, birth and death dates, military service, family relationships, and epitaphs, offering a detailed historical snapshot of local families, veterans, children, and spouses buried in the cemetery.
A detailed transcription of Oxford Cemetery in Oxford, likely in Michigan, with directions to the site and a long list of gravestone inscriptions recorded in September 2001. The collection includes names, dates, family relationships, military service notes, and epitaphs, offering a historical snapshot of local families and veterans buried there.
Philo O. VanWagoner, born on November 17, 1849, in Oxford, Michigan, passed away on August 4, 1919, in Ida Grove, Iowa, due to muscular paralysis. He married Etta McVean in 1873, and they had five children, three of whom survived him. A stone mason by trade, he served as sheriff and later as marshal and superintendent of the city waterworks in Ida Grove, contributing to his community for 17 years. He was buried in the Ida Grove Cemetery.